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The Least of Us
True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
The Least of Us deepens the story of our nation’s opioid epidemic to include the spread of mass supplies of synthetic drugs (fentanyl and meth).
Fentanyl is the deadliest drug ever on US streets. Quinones also broke the major story of Mexican traffickers’ method of making methamphetamine in catastrophic supplies now accompanied by waves of psychosis resembling schizophrenia, mental illness, homelessness and tent encampments across America.
The Least of Us also delves into the neuroscience of addiction, concluding we live in a soup of legal substances and services whose addictiveness is ever-refined by consumer-product corporations.
“In a time when drug traffickers act like corporations and corporations like traffickers,” Quinones writes, “our best defense, perhaps our only defense, lies in bolstering community.”
Thus, as he set out to do this book, Quinones sought small, unnoticed stories of Americans involved in community repair.
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Quinones, Sam –
PERSONAL:
Born December 13, , in Munich, Germany; married; wife's name Sheila; children: Caroline Kateland. Education:University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Economics and B.A. (American history),
ADDRESSES:
Home—Los Angeles, CA. [email&#;protected]; [email&#;protected].
CAREER:
Orange County Register,Santa Ana, CA, journalist, ; Stockton Record, Stockton, CA, crime reporter, ; Tacoma News-Tribune, Tacoma, WA, ; Mexico Insight (magazine), reporter, ; freelance writer in Mexico, c. ; Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, reporter on immigration and gangs, —.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Alicia Patterson Fellowship, , for series of stories on impunity in Mexico.
WRITINGS:
NONFICTION
True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx,University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM),
Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration,University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM),
SIDELIGHTS:
Sam Quinones is a journalist noted for his in-depth reportage on stories involving Mexican immigrants and immigration issues. He has also won praise for his writing on gangs in Mexico and in
Sam Quinones
Biography
Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of three acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction.
His most recent book is Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Bloomsbury Press.
His career as a journalist has spanned almost 30 years. He lived for 10 years as a freelance writer in Mexico, where he wrote his first two books.
In , he returned to the United States to work for the L.A. Times, covering immigration, drug trafficking, neighborhood stories, and gangs.
In , he resigned from the paper to return to freelancing, working for National Geographic, Pacific Standard Magazine, the New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, and other publications.
You can learn more about his work by visiting his website:
Interview
Why does immigration reporting matter today?
It probably matters more than it ever has, due to the ease with which people cross borders, and the enormous influence of media worldwide informing people of what life is like elsewhere. It&#;s a rare country not affected by immigration &#; either sending or receiving. Above all, what is important is storytelling
Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction.
His most recent book is The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, released in The book follows his release, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Bloomsbury Press.
Both books are critically acclaimed. In January , The Least of Us was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) award for Best Nonfiction Book of
Dreamland won a National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of It was also selected as one of the Best Books of by , the Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Seattle Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Entertainment Weekly, Audible, and in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Business by Nobel economics laureate, Prof. Angus Deaton, of Princeton University. In , Dreamland was selected as one the Best 10 True-Crime Books of all time based on lists, surveys, and ratings of more than 90 million readers. Also in , selected Dreamland as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the last 25 years. In , GQ Magazin
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